EiFinder vs Handlefree
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
EiFinder
Locate hidden items using GPS coordinates and a visual warm/cold indicator. Register and secure your item positions with a password for others to find.
- GPS coordinate search
- Distance indicator
- Visual warm/cold view
- Register item positions
- Password protection
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Search your easter eggs with the GPS coordinated EiFinder. It shows the distance and a visual warm/cold view. It's easy. Register your positions. Secure it with a password and give the device to the person who should search the easter eggs.
Handlefree
Control your Tesla's doors, frunk, trunk, and charge port directly from your iPhone or Apple Watch. This app offers a convenient way to interact with your vehicle without needing to touch physical handles, with features like live door status and customizable shortcuts.
- Open/close specific Tesla doors
- Access frunk and trunk
- Control charge-port cover
- Action Button and Shortcut integration
- Apple Watch app and complication
- Live door position status
- Holiday Mode for safety
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Skip the handle. Handlefree opens the right door of your Tesla with one press. Unlatch your Tesla's driver door from the Action Button, a Shortcut, Control Center or your Apple Watch. Let a passenger in by releasing exactly their door before they reach for the handle. Open the frunk and trunk, close the powered trunk, and open or close the charge-port cover. Every press is one deliberate attempt, sent directly to your car over Bluetooth. Nothing waits in a queue to fire later, and nothing is retried automatically. Handlefree then tells you what actually happened: requested, accepted by the car, reported open, or unavailable. It shows how long the command took. • One control per door, each with a named confirmation, mapped to your steering side • Live door position while you stand beside your car, whenever the car reports it • Siri phrases, nine ready-made Shortcuts, plus fixed-door controls for Control Center and the Lock Screen (iOS 18+) • Two favorite controls right under the main button • Apple Watch app and complication, using your nearby iPhone • Holiday Mode pauses every command until you turn it off with Face ID or your passcode • An optional strong-signal check before sending Private by design: your key is created on your iPhone and stays in its device-only Keychain. No Tesla login, no Handlefree account, no server, no analytics or advertising SDK. Free forever: your driver door, locking and unlocking, Holiday Mode and every safety setting. Handlefree Pro is a one-time purchase, not a subscription. It unlocks passenger and rear doors, frunk, trunk, the charge-port cover and Apple Watch, and is shared with your family through Family Sharing. Try every Pro feature free for 7 days after you pair your car. Works with Tesla vehicles that support Bluetooth phone keys and current vehicle software; Model S and Model X built before 2021 do not. Confirmed on Model Y and Model 3. Pairing needs a key card that already opens your car, at the interior card reader; setup walks you through it in four steps and shows where the reader is. Each additional door or cargo action is tested once on your car before its shortcut is enabled. Use beside your parked car with the area around the door or cargo opening clear. Bluetooth range varies. A command acknowledgement does not prove physical movement. The frunk is closed by hand. Handlefree is an independent app by OneKapisch. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to Tesla, Inc. Tesla, Model 3, Model Y, Model S and Model X are trademarks of Tesla, Inc.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Handlefree at 100% against EiFinder's 0%. Handlefree also leads on rating (5.0 vs 1.0) and update cadence (weekly vs every 12 months). EiFinder's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and iOS requirement (7.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Handlefree sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. EiFinder asks for nothing beyond the download.
Handlefree holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Handlefree has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of EiFinder's written reviews are positive against 100% of Handlefree's.
EiFinder ships an update every 12 months, Handlefree weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | EiFinder | Handlefree |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 6 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 12 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 7.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 19 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Swiss-Development GmbH | Kapish Bhardwaj |
Customer experience
EiFinder
Handlefree
In-app purchases
EiFinder
No in-app purchases
Handlefree
- Handlefree Pro$9.99









